I.. Me... & My Pizza....

Saturday morning...

Nothing to look forward to...

Sleepy faces all around...

After a heated debate over the origin and logic behind prefixing and suffixing "dar" over certain explicitves the night before, I think they need their much deserved break...

Tried reading newspaper...

No help...

Tv ?

No ways...

Shantaram ?

Was found tossed in corner after 15 minutes...

TT ?

No fun anymore...

An idle mind is a devil's workshop...

An idle devil's mind...

Nevermind !!!!

Fiddling thru the phone, I dialled Dominos...

Ordered and started the stop watch...

To my disappointment, it came in 25 minutes...

Just when I cussed for being deprived of sadism, I realised, there's a coke less in the order...

Moreover, for a 290/- bill, the delivery boy wasnt having 10/- bucks change...

God exists...

He had to run back for obvious reasons...

Then he had to run back again for lack of change...

And clearly no tip...

What fun did I get?

What nirvana I attained?

What moksha??

What doors of heaven opened?

And theres no guarantee, delivery boy wouldnt do it again...

The amount of fuel wasted could have been put to better use...

No "What an idea Sir Ji" either...

Just for a fleeting moment I took pride in getting things done my way...

Right wrong doesn't matter...

Just the way I wanted...

Enough for making the remaining weekend peaceful...

Sublime

Its been a long time...

365 days to be exact...

A lot has changed in these 365 days...

Most of it still remains same...

Quest for identity was turning increasingly bizzare back then...

It still does but there's hope..

A hope which always was there to carry through...

A hope which always gave a pat on the back...

The hope small indeed, is the share of happiness and joy allotted to beings...

For it needs one ray of joy to pierce through the darkness of lives and unwrap gray and gloomy...

The hope that makes life gain in joy...

The hope that rouses aspiration and deed...

Life, though full of woe, holds also sources of happiness and joy

For some its money...

For some its "intangible" as we prefer it calling it off lately...

Me?

For me???

Rejoicing in other's joy becomes my daily ray of joy...

Rejoicing in other's joy makes my prolonged quest seems tiny...

Rejoicing in other's joy gives strength pillar to post...

Today, this holi, I wish this rejoice, to exuberate and make this holi the best ever...

This holi I hope...

This holi I wish...

This holi may everyone, not only compassion, but also joy with others open their heart...

This holi may everyone contemplate....

Happy Holi to everyone who manages to reach till this point... :P

2010 Dawns

Day: December 31, 2009

Time: 1200 hrs IST

Overheard from the neighboring bays

Voice A: Dude, what plans tonight?

Voice B: Usual… Go home, dinner, TV, Gtalk and bed

Voice A: But today is the New Year’s Eve!!!

Voice B: So?

Voice A: You mean to say NO celebrations?

Voice B: How does that would change my life? My miseries? My anxieties? How does a change in

calendar will make me a better person? The office would be the same, the traffic jams would be

the same and so would be every other thing...

There was silence...

A screaming silence…

I left for thinking about the conversation I heard...

It pinched deep within...

We all know, the things will all be the same doesn’t matter if its December 31, 2009 or January 1, 2010...

Despite that the optimist inside us dares to dream...

Dare to make things better...

Dare to change the world...

With that hope, dare and "inspired" by Voice A & B, I decided to resolute for a better tomorrow...

A tomorrow which will see happy faces all around...

There won’t be any cribs...

There won’t be any hatred...

There won’t be any sorrows...

Diet, Exercise, No extravagance, No breaking traffic rules, No cheating etc… etc… etc...

NONE...

NONE of these stand as my New Year resolution...

I keep to the basics...

I resolute to be a better human being this year...

A person who is etched as a "human" in everyone's hearts and soul...

A "human" who compels everyone to look within and say "hey, it’s not that bad a thing to be "human" after all!!”

Come January 1, 2010 I resolute not to hurt any species who breathes...

Be it animals, vegetation and the Homo sapiens...

That doesn’t mean I would give in to all undue whims and fancies of the world

But, any act to which my conscious says "dude, that going to hurt" would be kept aside...

I personally believe, if you do good, good will come to you sooner than later...

And if each one of us be like that, the world will become a better place to live in...

No, I am not being philosophical...

If a good HR policy can make the office a better place to work at, then a good "human" policy can make the world a better place to live in...

Its the people who make difference...

If HR can do for an organization, we can do it for the world...

So..

Here I am...

Standing by the beach...

As the clock strikes 12...

As 2010 knocks...

As the sun rises above the horizon...

As the new dawn beacons...

I, Ashish Bhatnagar, resolute to be a better human being...

And hope the wave spreads...

And hope 2010 makes the world a happier merrier place to be in...

And hope the smile fathoms...

Amen

MBA - The GLOBAL One

Life has taken a full circle...

Almost...

Done with the fast forward MBA and to think about it, it DOES make a difference...

Not only on your visiting card but on YOU, the human as a whole...

1 year...

2 countries...

2 pole apart cultures...

104 insane partners in crime...

A dozen "coordinators" and "facilitators"...

And you know you have done it... :)

I might still not know the difference between CAPEX and OPEX...

I might still not know why Dubai is a rampant economy... ;)

But I definitely know how not to give up...

I definitely know how to keep sanity in place when it all seems shattered and scatterd...

I definitely know how to keep faith and belief...

I definitely know how to tolerate narcissism, cynicism, criticism and of course bull shitism...

One of my friends mentioned in his blog about (re)learning the lesson on team dynamics and human relations...

I believe that HAS to be the BEST take away from the course...

You learn it the best when you are thrown in the dungeon(read einstein den) with people of all different wavelengths...

SPJCM makes sure you learn THAT atleast, even if you hate it to the core...

Equipped with another feather in cap, as I stand on the verge of starting the corporate life all over again...

I hope to make it better than it ever was...

I hope to excel...

I hope NOT to be in THE list EVER again...

I hope to make it worth all the pain...

Amen...

All in a Day's Work

It happened a few weeks earlier with the ex-president...

It happened a few days earlier with the so called heartthrob...

Both were bothered during the security roundups...

One was made to undergo routine...

Other was made to undergo randomness...

Media went berserk...

Politicians forgot there is drought looming over the nation...

Leaders demanded apologies...

All in a days work...

Am not here to comment over the security procedures of an airlines, not the madness of the check-in process of certain nation...

Am not here to be judgemental over treatment imparted...

But am surely would comment on the ways the person concerned gestured afterwards...

One of them rubbed it off saying it to be routine check...

Other went on rounds of interview clarifying doubts, allegations and endless blah blah blah....

If anything that can be learned from the incident, it would be humility...

Why make hue and cry over certain routine procedures...

Millions are frisked daily...

So what I am the ex-president of a country ???

Dont you the know the "ex"es are not treated royally...

Be it the "ex" girlfriend, "ex" husband or "ex" anything....

Same goes for the president too...

Open and shut...

And he did that with grace...

The other one on the other hand...

Did rounds to one news channel, the other news channel and then other news channel till he made sure the entire nation's jobless crowd is talking about it...

Am simply out of words to describe the idiocies of the so called superstar...

Somethings are rather left unsaid...

But we need to do something over assumed "royalness" by some...

And the leaders/media should make sure, page 3 gossips remain at page 3...

We got better things to worry at...

Hopefully....